Morelli Mara, Graziano Federica, Chirumbolo Antonio, Baiocco Roberto, Longobardi Emiddia, Trumello Carmen, Babore Alessandra, Cattelino Elena
Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
J Child Fam Stud. 2022;31(6):1522-1534. doi: 10.1007/s10826-022-02266-5. Epub 2022 Feb 16.
The COVID-19 outbreak resulted in a large amount of emotionally charged messaging that is believed to have a tremendous psychological impact, particularly on children and early adolescents. The present study examined the relationships between children's exposure to COVID-19 news, children's emotional responses to the news, parental styles of mediating COVID-19 news, and children's emotional functioning during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy in April 2020. An online survey was completed by 277 parents (Mage = 43.36; SDage = 4.76; mothers = 89.5%) with children aged 6 to 13 years. Regression analyses showed that the parental active mediation style was associated with higher emotion regulation and lower lability/negativity, whereas the restrictive style was associated with higher lability/negativity and the social coviewing style was associated with lower emotion regulation. The results provide evidence for how adults using an active style can mediate messages to reduce children's emotional difficulties during events with high emotional involvement.
新冠疫情爆发导致了大量充满情绪的信息传播，据信这些信息对心理产生了巨大影响，尤其是对儿童和青少年早期。本研究调查了2020年4月意大利新冠疫情封锁期间，儿童接触新冠新闻的情况、儿童对新闻的情绪反应、父母对新冠新闻的调解方式以及儿童的情绪功能之间的关系。277名有6至13岁孩子的家长（平均年龄 = 43.36；标准差 = 4.76；母亲占89.5%）完成了一项在线调查。回归分析表明，父母积极的调解方式与较高的情绪调节能力和较低的易激惹性/消极情绪相关，而限制型方式与较高的易激惹性/消极情绪相关，社交共同观看方式与较低的情绪调节能力相关。研究结果为成年人如何采用积极方式调解信息，以减少儿童在情绪高度卷入事件中的情绪困扰提供了证据。
